After defeating Niemann in the Speed Chess Championship, Hikaru Nakamura announced that he will be playing a match against Faustino Oro. The match Nakamura – Faustino Oro is expected to be in an e-sports format, as part of Nakamura’s traditional live broadcast.
Faustino Oro is an Argentinian chess prodigy. He has been dubbed the “Messi of chess”. In 2023, when he was nine, he received a rating of 2300 , becoming the youngest chess player to attain the FM title. Faustino Oro earned his IM title which he earned in June 2024 at the age of 10 years, 8 months, and 16 days, breaking the record of Abhimanyu Mishra. (Mishra is still the youngest GM)
